U.S. Soccer unveil 2014 USMNT World Cup home uniform

No, not the start of the World Cup, but the release of the U.S. Men’s National Team’s latest uniform that they’ll wear at the World Cup. Designed by official partners Nike, this uniform is an all-white kit with red lining at the end of the sleeves and the polo-type collar. The jersey features a return to the regular U.S. Soccer crest and the jersey top features faint grey horizontal hoops from the top to the bottom.

The rest of the uniform features white shorts and white socks, with a red stripe running down the side of the shorts.

The 2014/2015 uniform is already on sale on USSoccer.com for fans who want to purchase it ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

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What do you think of the uniform? Like the design? Think it’s too plain? Would you have rather seen them go a different direction?

260 Responses to U.S. Soccer unveil 2014 USMNT World Cup home uniform

I was going to buy this jersey but i realize I have it in my closet already: or at least 99% of it. Now all I need to do it print out an adhesive copy of the Flying Soccer Ball crest and I’m done. Maybe I will do the Centennial Crest instead.

This isn’t a direct response to you. I was just hoping for better visibility…

Everyone, the best way to get a message across is to hit where it hurts. I sincerely think we should boycott the jersey. No one buy it. This isn’t meant as an attack on US Soccer. Regardless of the jersey design, I will stand by my national team come the World Cup. This is about getting our collective message across regarding the direction we as supporters want to go in terms of our identity. It is plain as day that the overwhelming majority of supporters prefer the Centennial crest (not to mention the unoriginal design of the new jersey). Want to send a message? Make sure it gets heard.

No one buy the new jersey. Also, send a quick email (doesn’t have to be a book…about 50 words) simply stating that you’re not buying and which crest you would prefer to see. Again, this isn’t about sabotage. Let’s just see what happens. Who knows? It might work…

I just sent my message. If you want to contribute, go to ussoccer.com, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Contact Us, choose the Communications/PR department to write to, and then write your message.

It would be amazing if our messages achieve our objective. Let’s hope we get the centennial crest back.

Agree on telling US Soccer that we don’t like the “jersey.” 1,000 comments on SBI may not get their attention but that many negative posts on their Facebook page, Twitter, or directly to them from the “Contact Us” page of the website will hopefully get their attention.

I think this is a decent shirt for fans but it’s attrocious as a jersey to represent our country. Jerseys should not have collars or buttons. The clip-art soccer ball crest is juvenile and embarrassing. The Centennial crest was motivating.

I’m also one that didn’t like the “where’s Waldo” jersey at first because it literally evoked Waldo before anything else. However, I later realized that it represented the red and white stripes of the US flag and since then I liked it. This shirt doesn’t represent anything, regardless of any marketing talking about one country, one team. Grey stripes on white is meaningless.

Well of course you stand by the team, no matter what. I agree. Don’t buy this. Nike expects you to buy it because it is the year of the World Cup and they know that no matter what they produce, people will buy it. And Us Soccer slaps a $150 price tag on. Go check out the US Soccer store online. For real, take a white polo out of your closet and just stencil everything on(crest, nike swoosh, player name and number) post a picture of it on their facebook page and save your money. Don’t let Nike and US Soccer get away with spending 5 minutes designing a kit and then try to charge you $150/$90

I think that you are missing some of the more subtle design details, like the white color, the collar and the soccer ball on the crest that lets you know what sport they are playing. All sarcasm aside, this is a fail any way you look at it. Glad that I bought the centennial jersey. Hate this silly current crest.

I’m a research scientist who loves the beautiful game and tries to play.

Not sure I like the looks of this one but looks are everything. Anyone play in this jersey? I remember playing for 90 mins in a number 17 wishing I had a number 1 on my back when the game hit the extra minutes. Tight matches are won/lost by the extra 2% effort?

Looks to me that we leadership that knows how to win and want to win against popular opinion.

You know it’s bad when even the Associated Press ran the wire article regarding the release of the jersey with the headline “New US World Cup jersey resembles golf shirt”. Clearly, some things are not just a matter of opinion.

I think the distinction is more OK/bad than awesome/bad. The visceral reation we all get to the restoration of the current logo tells you the current logo needs to go, not that we need to adopt the tepid but slightly better throwback.

Like it or not, but the red hoops made the U.S. identifiable. When you watch international football, you know who is playing instantaneously based on their kits (Argentina is light blue and white verticals; brazil is yellow shirt with green accents with blue shorts, mexico is green-white-red, France is blue-white-red, Germany is white-black….no one else wheres horizontal/ hoops). I say we should’ve stuck with it.

Also…if anyone cares…supporters wearing the home (hoops) and road (blue with white sleeves) could have made a pretty awesome looking knock-off flag if they positioned themselves in the stands correctly.

Well, this is disappointing beyond words. Maybe one day US Soccer will have an identity the fans can be proud of, instead of this lazy copy-cat bs we’re having to put up with right now. I’m buying the hoops from last year for this WC. No way I’m supporting this one. What a bummer…

It’s blue with a white and red chevron. It is AWFUL. The home kit looks like what the players would wear on their way to the game. The away kit looks like what the players would wear while warming up. So disappointed.

Might as well put a little alligator on it. Who approves these things at the Federation? Don’t they want to increase revenue by having a killer kit? Plain and simple I hate the collar and always will. It is just not appealing to wear as a sports top. There are not many sports that utilize the collar these days. Perhaps if I buy one I can cut it off.

you know why the shade of blue matters? Because red, white, and royal blue are the colors of Russia, Slovakia, Czech republic, Slovenia, Croatia. I live in an area with a lot of immigrants from those countries. When I see red, white, and royal blue I think of those countries not the USA. Would you be happy if US Soccer decided to make the home jerseys Green?

Green? Seriously? We’re talking different shades of blue, not different colors.
In fact, royal blue has been used many times. The U.S. won it’s first ever title (1991 inaugural Gold Cup) wearing an all-royal blue uni.

Collars are always a welcome sight, though the button up aspect is a bit awkward. And I guess keeping the centennial badge just made too much sense. Do better with the road kit, Nike. Otherwise I’ll just stay with the centennial, thanks.

Surely Nike has to be doing some sort of market research before and after they release a kit? Do they not hear that literally everyone hates the crest and no one is down with this god awful England rip off? It is so bizarre to me that this is still happening. Listen to the fans damn it!! We are the ones that are supposed to buy it.

This is HORRIBLE. Couldnt agree more about the market research comment. Nike must have asked someone what they thought of this horrific design before deciding to go with it. This is beyond disappointing.

Woke up to my nightmare this morning. I was really hoping Nike wouldn’t do this but they did. Why does US Soccer refuse to listen to the supporters? This is a slap in the face and a WC year to boot. Our boys looked tough in the centennial crest jerseys and the hoops gave us identity on and off the pitch. They should have slapped the centennial crest on the hoop jersey. I am just disgusted….I will not be purchasing one….thanks US Soccer and thanks Nike for paying no attention to we the people……garbage.

What a bunch of babies. If the shirt was ugly, you’d complain, if it’s white with red trim, you complain. Who cares? I don’t think Nike is going to take into account the 100 or so whiners on Ives. Don’t buy it, wear your old jersey and cheer on the boys. Pathetic.

I wouldn’t agree that it is item intended for your purchase but rather a representation of the country. If they put the ball in the net, the collars put up, and we win games at the WC, does it matter? I bet still people will complain about the shirt. Lame.

Or should type it in all bold caps so I can really get my point across….

Typically when any shirt comes out you have the people who love it and the people who hate it. Everybody has their opinions despite what yours may be and how fervent you are. With this one it seems pretty clear though, I have yet to hear a positive statement about it.

I had saw a post on twitter by some ESPN writer who is at the camp. He said,” Green looked as you’d would expect: quick feet, sharp finisher, committed on offense and defense drills. A little bit nervous.”

Also, I saw a video, which I can’t find now, of him one vs one Bedoya and he did a bunch of stepovers and bit him for a shot on goal.

What a shockingly bad USA soccer crest. That flying soccer ball is truly an embarrassment. I’ve been studying the logos of the other countries, and the USA logo is terrible when compared to every other country. Sigh.

Why can’t we update the crest to the centennial version?

As another poster suggested, does this jersey come with a pair of mom jeans?

I have to say though, I don’t get all the constant HATE towards the crest. It’s our crest. With a constantly changing jersey ‘identity’ that crest is one of our few constants. I have no desire to see it go and replaced by the absolutely bland Centennial crest that is nothing more than our country’s flag put into an arbitrary shield shape.

The USA hockey team had just about the same logo on their jerseys. That’s how standard the Centennial crest is. I’d prefer to the ‘flying soccer ball’ crest as you call it. Or, you know, something totally new that isn’t bland and uninspired.

There are some creative examples out there that would be a stark improvement over the flying soccer ball logo… I agree tradition is nice… but from a graphic design perspective, that flying soccer ball is a joke!

I’d encourage you to check out the crests of the other countries… That flying soccer ball looks like amateur hour in comparison!

“Tradition for the sake of tradition” is how silly things never get changed. Let’s make a really classic crest and then stay with it forever so we can forget this flying ball thing ever happened. The nineties called the other day and apologized, said they messed that one up bad. Sometimes you just have to start again. We’ll cry, we’ll eat some ice cream, but we’ll be better off in the long run.

The Jersey is an utter let down, and shall I say a disappointment. I have never had a problem with an “all white kit”, but in fact love them. However, the color change of “Old Glory Blue” (Navy) to this “Royal” color is just terrible in my opinion, but more importantly is the redesigned Crest. Nike did everything right with the “Centennial kit and Crest”, and they had to go and screw it up with this monstrosity badge. They colors for the stars and stripes are inverse of the flag, which I personally think is offensive. This is one of the few times I think Nike has really dropped the ball. I am dubbing this and Epic Nike Fail.

Disappointing. Nike jerseys in the past have generally not been as good as those issued by the big competitors and Nike has yet again come up with a dud. Do not understand why that is, why they never seem to learn from past mistakes? Who are these Nike designers, anyway?

But, hey. Only a jersey. Who cares? It’s the game that counts and we are now only 100 days from the Big Show.

So the lettering says “One Nation One Team” if viewed under UV lights. Apart from the sheer wierdness of the UV secrecy on a soccer shirt, that is a very odd message. Was there any doubt about either the oneness of the US as a country or the team? Did anyone suspect there were two US teams? Is this a subtle hint at locker room discord over the backstories of some of the players? All in all, a flat, boring shirt, with the wrong color blue, a logo almost no one likes (presume it is up to US Soccer, not Nike, to change that), grey hoziontal stripes signifying noting, plus added and unnecessary strageness.

Why must the US team constantly change their jersey design and colors? It’s simple. Update the US crest to something new and less ’90s, but not as generic as the centennial crest. The home kit should be the Waldo kit: red/white striped jersey, blue shorts, white socks with trim. The first away kit should be the 2010-2012 away kit: blue jersey with the white sash and red accents, blue shorts, blue socks with white trim. The third kid should be the 2011-2012 third kit: red jersey with blue sash, blue shorts, red socks with blue trim. That’s it. Stop the rotating uniforms already.

It is shockingly plain but maybe the shorts are wildly patterned to compensate for this yawn of a shirt. Knowing Nike though it’s probably going to be khaki shorts with pleats and red and blue striped socks to check off the obligatory red white and blue color combo. It’s a GAP WC for the US.

Oh man, I can almost see Jermaine Jones popping up his collar before the game because he thinks that is the American thing to do. I think the inspirations for this shirt are the typical suburban big box stores like Best Buy and Home Depot. It’s as if US Soccer decided to open up a big box store and they have players like Donovan and Beasley greeting people at the door in pleated khaki pants and this shirt saying “Hi welcome to US Soccer store, what can I do for you?” This blows Nike, why did you do this?

No mames NIke
always the same crap with nike, why not have a contest like adidas has for MLS jerseys.
I would love navy blue socks with white stars, waldo shirt which has red & white stripes, with red or white shorts.
Just do it………..:) right for once

Absolutely awful. Like many here, I immediately thought of England. Would it really be so hard to throw a quality kit out there? Think early 2000s red jersey with sash and the centennial crest. Everybody on this board would buy that, instead these white polis will go on sale, but still nobody will buy them. Sad effort Nike.

As much as people mock the outrageous jerseys (Liverpools kits this year) at least they are a bit unique and have character. Like others have said this is just a generic polo shirt with an outdated US Soccer logo stamped on it.

Very unhappy with the shirt. Few people will buy this jersey. Anything was better than this. Why didn’t they just keep our “Where’s Waldo” shirts – those are distinctive – have class – have an identity to our national flag? Or our national 2002 & 2006 shirts?

This is just the England Uniform with a US Badge. Who approved this jersey? They should be fired. This jersey will not sell well. This shirt will be marked down to $19 because no one will buy it.

In true NIKE fashion, they’ve taken down any chance at buying the Hoops kit right now. Both the federation’s own website and World Soccer Shop only have the new home, all whites for sale right now (authentic at the low low price of $149.99).

Truly disappointing to think of how much “research and development” probably will be claimed to have gone into “creating” this bland, underwhelming effort.

If you don’t like this outdated USMNT crest and want to make a change, please sign this petition to urge US Soccer to change the current crest to the classy looking “centenial” crest. We already have 3,464 signatures but need over 1500 more..

Please sign the petition so US Soccer President, Sunil Gulati can get the message>>>>>>>>

Why can’t we have a visual identity like other countries? Something that can vary over time, but every time you see it, you say, “That’s the United States.” Other countries have an identity, but we don’t. We get the Nike Flavor of the Year. Not everyone liked the sash set (I personally loved them), but something like that would make a great identity that can be modified and tweaked over time while still being the USA kit.

But no, this year we get the exact same shirt a Nike employee wore to a design meeting with the USA crest slapped on it. And next time we’ll get something completely different yet again.

See my comment near the top. The hoops DID just that and everyone ragged on them because they made us look like “where’s waldo.” So, NIKE did what everyone wanted….no hoops. I’m sure an exec will come out soon and say, “well, you asked for it.”

I’d argue that one instance does not make an identity, because we could argue each different uniform over the past two decades is an identity – the sash, the hoops, the golf polo, etc. To me, the sash made an identity for the U.S., but they changed it anyway.

True, the sash was traditional and gave us a certain look. However, other national teams have sashes and – for better or worse – have used them consistently. This puts the US national teams in a “copy cat” category. I can just hear some euro football snob saying to his friend at the pub: oh look…all those CONCACAF countries all have sashes….aren’t the cute?

The hoops were something no one else has done. Unique. Identifiable. Loud. Same types of adjectives we like to think of ourselves, no?

…would like to point out that a majority of fans hated the waldo shirts when they came out too, now they’re viewed as “distinctive”. It seems like people’s gut reaction to anything new is to react negatively and trot out the excessive hyperbole, ie “its the worst shirt ive ever seen”. Truth is, with blue shirts and white socks itll be fine. That IS the traditional USA look, white-blue-white, going back to the 70’s at least.

always the same crap with nike, why not have a contest like adidas has for MLS jerseys.
I would love navy blue socks with white stars, waldo shirt which has red & white stripes, with red or white shorts.
Just do it………..:) right for once

I like it. Sure, one could complain about the crest, and the dominance of the Nike swoosh, but overall it’s has a presence that expresses confidence. We’re not saying, “Golly gee, look at our uniforms!” – we’re saying, “We’re the US and we’re here to play.” Also, I like to collar. It’s definitely a cut above the T-shirt look often seen on soccer jerseys. Whatever the away kits, I hope they express the same strength of character.

No. I’m serious. Haven’t seen the kits on the pitch yet, but I think it will look good and give the team a formidable presence. I also think that it is distinctive, unlike many of the ‘flashy’ kits one sees.

Maybe if the US had a favorable chance to advance to round of 16, Nike would’ve spent more time on our “jersey”. As it stands now, Dempsey and Altidore’s in season form is free-falling and our inexperienced backline will be too much for the US to overcome in the group of death.

I saw this comment on facebook…someone said “the people at nike can drop LSD and produce some of the most creative uniforms out there, but then outsource the designing of the US kit to a company that designs golf polos.”

They should make this the 2018 World Cup jersey instead. Right now, I’ve got doubts that the 2018 World Cup will happen. They way events are moving, I don’t know if Western governments would tolerate a World Cup hosted in Russia.

Im going to print out the 90’s clip art crest and glue it to one of my white polos. boom, now I don’t have to buy this jersey. I can’t believe people get paid to design this, its like they don’t even care.

US has had some cool jerseys in the past. So I’ll just wear one I already own. No one should hate on the jersey since it really doesn’t mean anything. Anyone going to the World Cup? Me and two of my friends are so we’re looking for other US fans to kick it with.

Here is a crazy idea. Instead of plunking down $$$ for the sucktacular jersey just make your own supporter t-shirt. Take a red, white or blue t-shirt find an iron on decal of the centennial crest and just wear that instead. It might cost you $10 bucks and it would send a message. Homemade supporter wear could be the way we set ourselves apart.

Is this a joke? Why don’t we give them wife beaters with US sharpied on them? One of the worst US jerseys to date in my opinion. Just because the euro countries all have boring white jerseys doesn’t mean we have to have one as well……..

I actually called US Soccer and told them they had better start looking on the web as the jersey is getting killed with regard to reviews (link to ussoccer.com). The jersey is getting absolutely destroyed on facebook. The guy who I spoke to said that they had other calls today from supporters who were not happy at all about the new kit.

Here are all the problems with the crest, which is actually worse than the old, but similar crest:
1. There are three stars. They have no meaning.
2. The middle star is larger that the two aside it. That has no meaning.
3. The stars are mostly blue, which has no meaning and makes no sense because the stars on the American flag are white.
4. The outline and stripes are royal blue, which has no meaning and makes no sense because the stripes on the American flag are red and white and the blue on the star plain is a darker blue.
5. The vertical stripes look like the bars on a cell phone, not stripes on a flag. That’s because they lack a border that would give it context.
6. The flying soccer ball is cartoonish and unecessary.
7. The angle the soccer ball appears to be flying makes no sense. Is the crest meant to evoke someone putting a speculative shot into the 15th row?
8. The U and S are partially covered. Don’t cover the name of the country.
9. If you are going to put “US” on the crest, you must add the “A.” Its not “YMC” either.
10. Its actually too small. It should be about 1/3 larger.

It seems like most people like the centennial crest. I just want to make sure people realize that’s not everyone’s opinion. I vehemently oppose the use of the centennial crest. I find it to be unnecessarily gaudy.

Taste is taste, so I hope I don’t get any nasty responses from of my comments… I actually like it: simple, clean with nice touches such as the red lining and the gray hoops. Classy. Again, taste is taste. I also like the crest – much more modern than the centennial one (obviously).

I agree that taste is indeed taste. I will also say that I prefer jerseys that are clean and simple as well. My biggest problem is that it’s not a jersey, it’s a polo! The US Soccer site even used the term polo to describe it. It looks almost exactly like what a US soccer polo looks like that you’d buy at the store.

Going to disagree big time on the crest though. The current one screams 1990s clip art. Nothing modern about something that looks like it was made with 20 year old technology. At least the centennial had a “retro” look, 20 years old isn’t retro or modern though. It’s just dated.

The first US game is based in Manu and Manu is the launch off point for the Amazon Jungle. Anyone been there? Are the Brazilian stadiums completed? Does anyone know if the Manu stadium is completed and if it is air-conditioned? FIFA draw puts the US as the home team in a hot climate. If the stadium is open-air, someone is really, really smart! Moreover, how did they get NIKE to every agree to a jersey that doesn’t hit us at first sight?

I like the idea of the centennial crest, but a lot of non-soccer types are going to mistake it for an Old Navy shirt. I would put the number 1913 on the centennial crest and a soccer ball from that period (brown leather). The current crest looks like AYSO clip art.

As for shirts, I don’t like the idea of changing the whole design every WC cycle. For me, the hoops (Waldo) jersey is the only jersey that is unmistably American from 100 yards away. Brazil has their yellow, Holland their orange, Spain their red, etc. They tweak the jerseys ever WC cycle, but the basic idea stays the same. I think we should adopt the hoops as our permanent jersey and just tweak it a bit every cycle.

This is the shirt the coaching staff is supposed to wear. To revert back to the old crest with the punching soccer ball could mean one of several things one of which is that US Soccer does not own the rights to the centennial crest and is too cheap to buy the rights, or they have printed a quintillion of these punching soccer ball crests and want to use them all up before they move on to a better design again US Soccer is cheap, or US Soccer honchos don’t care about the fans and think that they can do whatever they want and us fans will eventually go along. Let’s do a boycott of this new jersey and request that the centennial jersey be brought back and do a buycott. We should recognize that us fans. WE are US Soccer. So sign the petition to keep the centennial crest at change.org. Or go to the US Soccer website and scroll down to the bottom of the web page and click on “contact us” select pr/communications and let US Soccer know how you feel. If enough of us take just five minutes to do one of these things we can be heard but we have to speak out. If you don’t like the new jersey (polo shirt, golf shirt) with the old crest and you don’t speak out then you shouldn’t write on a blog complaining.

Here is a comment from the creative director at Nike about our 2014 World Cup polo … I mean jersey… I mean golf shirt … Oh you know what I mean.
“The new kit clearly showcases the USA’s national pride and distinct sense of style, while also capturing the nation’s eternal optimism,” said Martin Lotti, Creative Director for Nike Soccer.
For someone who probably takes home a seven figure salary this is really pathetic if he thinks this shirt showcases our national pride and a distinct sense of style.

And why do we have this stupid crest. Blue friggin’ stripes??? Now with more blue around the outside. Like a bizzaro-world US flag. Go with the Centennial Crest, copy US Hockey and that would make this look more snazzy. But please get rid of the idiotic US badge. It truly sucks.

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